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Seniors or Older Adults - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Facilities - Dorchester, IA.

Addiction rehabilitation programs which serve the unique needs of seniors and older adults may be more helpful for this particular group of people. Senior and older adult centered recovery services can be helpful with the initial stigma that seniors may feel they may experience when going to treatment and it offers the peer support from individuals in their stage of life who empathize and understand the unique difficulties they encounter. In age neutral programs seniors and older adults can sometimes be less likely to engage fully in group activities with the younger age group who don't understand their age related and generational specific challenges. Substance abuse treatment programs that offer a more age relating forum for seniors and older adults can provide a connection of mutual understanding, respect, and solace to address the challenges to treatment.

Treatment staff at substance abuse treatment centers for seniors and older adults are there to deliver their unique expertise with these clients to work on age-related, generational, and broader substance abuse related issues alike, while also taking into account any specific physical or mental impairments and challenges this subset of client faces while in treatment. Program materials for seniors and older adults may be presented with audio or verbal impairments in mind, such as larger type in reading material or treatment professionals who are experienced with such needs of older clients by the way individual and group counseling sessions.

Seniors and older adults are disproportionately prone to the abuse of prescription drugs and alcohol, and as part of recovery many require medical assistance not just through detoxification but to establish which prescriptions should be eliminated or continued as part of the treatment process and their transition to a healthy lifestyle that will sustain a long and happy life.

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